Preposition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A word or phrase placed typically before a substantive and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb, an adjective, or another substantive, as English at, by, with, from, and in regard to.
  • v. To position or place in position in advance: artillery that was prepositioned at strategic points in the desert.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of a closed class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
  • n. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
  • v. To place in a location before some other event occurs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased
  • n. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. (prē-pō˙-zish′ on). The act of preposing, or placing before or in front of something else.
  • n. In grammar, something preposed; a prefixed element; a prefix; one of a body of elements (by origin, words of direction, having an adverbial character) in our family of languages often used as prefixes to verbs and verbal derivatives; especially, an indeclinable part of speech regularly placed before and governing a noun in an oblique case (or a member of the sentence having a substantive value), and showing its relation to a verb, or an adjective, or another noun, as in, of, from, to, by, etc. Abbreviated preposition
  • n. A proposition; exposition; discourse.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)
  • n. a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
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